Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Category Archives: 2059 – Quote Unquote
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A good artist lets her intuition lead her wherever it wants.
~ Lao Zi
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
~ William Faulkner
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By 11th grade, the high-IQ students and their parents have spent so many years immersed in the college-admissions game that they, like 18th-century aristocrats evaluating which family has the most noble line, are able to make all sorts of fine distinctions about which universities have the most prestige: Princeton is better than Cornell; Williams is better than Colby.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
― Walter Benjamin
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The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
~ Ansel Adams
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While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
~ Claude Shannon
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
~ Arthur Koestler
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